Sonoma Scent Studio has launched two new fragrances, Champagne de Bois and Rose Musc, and a new formula for Cameo. Also coming this month: Jour Ensoleille.
Champagne de Bois ~ “A sparkling scent with aldehydic topnotes, a floral heart, a woodsy base, and a touch of spice…”
Italian fashion house Max Mara has launched a fruity floral variation on their original fragrance debut, 2004’s Max Mara. The new fragrance, Max Mara Silk Touch…
…was inspired by the silk flower and opens with notes of berberry, and cherry blossom..
We’ve featured an unusual number of mainstream designer fragrances here over the last month, so today we’re going all the way to the other end of the spectrum. Sonoma Scent Studio is the California-based indie perfume house of self-taught perfumer Laurie Erickson, and she is one of several small etailers who have gained a following on the fragrance forum at MakeupAlley. My favorite from the line is Bois Épicés, described as “soft, warm spices over a musk/wood base”, with notes of musk, sandalwood, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger, mandarin, cedar, cypress and coffee.
I suppose everyone has their own idea about what constitutes a comfort scent. There are fragrances that so extraordinarily soothing that they function almost like spray-on Valium (Diptyque Tam Dao, Comme des Garçons Kyoto) but that don’t quite qualify as comfort scents in my book. A comfort scent must be more than just soothing: it must be the perfume equivalent of putting on your favorite pair of beat-up jeans and a sweatshirt…